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Title: Analyzing Youth’s Problem Solving in Computational Making through a Community-Engaged Maker Program
This paper describes preliminary findings from NSF-funded research conducted at the New York Hall of Science with an established after school maker education and social entrepreneurship program called Innovation Institute. Using social entrepreneurship (Peredo & McLean, 2006) and hands–on making activities in a maker space environment, participants address community-focused problems they identify on their own in low-income neighborhoods in Queens,, New York. This project studied whether and how specific aspects of this nine-month, after-school computational making (defined by Rode, et al [2015] as combining computational thinking with skills in aesthetics, creativity, constructing, visualizing multiple representations, and understanding materials) program for 13–17-year-olds from recent immigrant populations may influence participants’ perceptions of the relevance, usefulness and accessibility of computer science and engineering as potential academic and career pathways.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1759261
PAR ID:
10475208
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Publisher / Repository:
American Educational Research Association
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Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
informal STEM learning making community
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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